Imagine having a bicycle with a closed chain guard. One day the chain falls off & you realize it's assembled with tamper-proof screws.
Now imagine the manufacturer wanting to make unscrewing that screw a felony carrying a 5-year prison sentence & a $500K fine.
They'd be booed out of business, if not institutionalized.
None the less, that's EXACTLY how DMCA 1201 works.
Despite @pluralistic & others' efforts I feel this isn't clear to the general public.
Imagine having library books online, that are locked down with no-print, 2 week long, anti-user garbage.
Oh wait, that's archive.org!
Wellllllll guess what. Here's how to crack LCP locked PDFs!
Nice DRM you have there, archive.org on those rental books. Be ashamed if someone broke it 😂 1. make account on archive.org 2. check out book 3. download the PDF (ends with lcpl). 4. Open the lcpl file in text editor and get the lcpdf file as well. store the 2 files in the same directory 5. run the provided python script to the lcpl file. https://pastebin.com/w0NxWiuD 6. use your email address (what you signed up with archive.org) as the password 7. you get unencrypted PDF
And if you use Calibre, then go get the LCP enabled DeDRM!
https://gitflic.ru/project/mikudaio/dedrm-lcp-extended
You also need lcpl-input plugin to enumerate the license file. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=342165
The company behind LCP has DMCA'd everyone in the West. And I say FUCK THEM.
Time to hand #repair tools to the masses!
@pierat @pluralistic Surely - just remember, as @pluralistic talks about in the 2nd ep of the "Who Broke The Internet" podcast, that the first arrest under 1201 was for exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
Also of note, given recent developments, the case was dropped because the alleged DMCA violation was, in fact, legal in the defendant's jurisdiction, which was outside the US.
The rest of us only have to comply with DMCA until we decide we don't want to.
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